Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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High Cost of Living has no value, of course, on a practical level but director Scheerer cannot be accused of not trying. Except for the outlandishness of the robbery plot, his portrait of three middle-aged middle-class women in Eugene, Oregon is devastatingly accurate. Their adventures with the police, with gas station attendants, exhusbands, husbands, and little leaguers have the all too humid air of authenticity about them...
Knight and Bowerman, the former University of Oregon track coach, met in 1958, when Knight was a business student at Oregon and a miler of some accomplishment (best time: 4:13). For years the crusty coach had been trying to design a better running shoe in his kitchen. "American shoes were just awful," says Bowerman, because they were heavy and lacked cushioning...
...Oregon Senator Mark Hatfield vowed to use every stalling technique the Senate's quaint rules would permit. At 3:30 a.m. Alaska Republican Ted Stevens read monotonously from a lengthy Senate committee report. At 4 a.m. Connecticut Republican Lowell Weicker worked himself into a spirited and largely irrelevant plea for the U.S. to become independent of foreign oil. But each Senator spoke only to a nearly empty chamber. Their colleagues dozed on cots in darkened conference rooms or in their otherwise vacant offices. This was the Senate's first all-night filibuster since 1978, an effort to prevent...
...neck-and-neck elite final, won by Oregon state--allowed to enter only a half hour before the race--the spread among the top four boats was only a few seats...
...Charter's holdings fit into the troika. Mason also owns an Oregon "aquaculture" subsidiary for salmon ranching, and has begun manufacturing a machine that unloads boxcars at ports. Because Charter is known for eclectic holdings, the company daily receives proposals for ventures that range from Montana gold mines to biorhythm techniques. Mason is considering "four or five" more new deals, including buying a railroad. Stock analysts fear that some of these far-flung adventures could cause the company to stumble again, as it did in 1975. But for now the high price of oil is paying for additions...